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Learning Quotes
"Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty."
"Please, not again what you studied, how long you spent at it, how many books you wrote, what people thought of you - but: what did you learn?"
"Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge."
"Everything I know, I learned from dogs."
"Curiosity killed the cat, but not before teaching her that honey bees are not sweet, tweeting birds are slow to react, mice can serve as both toys and food, big dogs like to snuggle, falling isn't flying, cream drips from lazy cows, water should be avoided at all costs, baths don't require getting wet, kindness and cruelty often fall from the same hand, and engines remain comfortably warm long after the motor dies."
"Not learning by doing, but learning by risking."
"He learned rapidly because his first training was in how to learn. And the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could learn. It is shocking to find how many people do not believe they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult."
"Knowledge deepens with experience."
"And reading itself is an amazing activity: You glance at a thin, flat object made from a tree...and the voice of the author begins to speak inside your head. (Hello!)"
"Understanding is important for studying, knowledge is important for teaching, and wisdom is important for living."
"Before you rush off trying to see everything you can, educate yourself."
"A benchmarking mind is an "interpreter mind which can bridge the gaps."
"The classes were valuable, but the real education was the game."
"We usually learn from debates that we seldom learn from debates."
"Learning comes from books, penetration of a mystery from suffering."
"Study me in my slow and patient demise. Watch what happens to me. Learn with me."
"I learn by doing....the same thing over and over and over again countless times."
"Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn."
"It is good," he thought "to taste for yourself everything you need to know. That worldly pleasures and wealth are not good things, I learned even as a child. I knew it for a long time, but only now have I experienced it. And now I know it, I know it not only because I remember hearing it, but with my eyes, with my heart, with my stomach. And it is good for me to know it!"
"I can think of another quickie education for a child, which, in its way, is almost as salutary: Meeting a human being who is tremendously respected by the adult world, and realizing that that person is actually a malicious lunatic."
"Take your time to find and understand what you don't know and in the end, you shall know that it is not all the things you know that shows you something you don't know, but something you don't know!"
"The person who can learn by observation can create his own culture."
"Who is the 'mother' of 'Knowledge (Gnan)'? It is 'Understanding' (samaj). Where can 'understanding' be acquired from? It is acquired from Gnani Purush (The Enlightened one)."
"Become a lifelong learner. Read books, watch videos, listen to audio, and seek lessons for learning how to live your best life now."
"You'll make bundle of blunders if you consider yourself too clever to look at anothers work."
"Reading and writing are solitary activities that increase a person's capacity for concentration, awareness, and conceptual thought as the person weaves immediate information with stored memories."
"Every Saturday morning, first thing before breakfast, his parents held conferences with their children requiring them to answer two questions put to each of them: 1. What have you learned that is true (and how do you know)? 2. What problem do you have?"
"Hanging around people you're smarter than is good for your ego. Hanging around people who are smarter than you is good for your intellect."
"Where is instruction in relationships, in the management of career, in the raising of children, in the pursuit of friendship, in the wise approach to anxiety and death? All this sort of stuff I craved to learn about when I was a student and down to this day."
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